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TikiPug
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From: Den of Sin / Pug's Pair-A-Dice
|  Posted: 2012-12-03 9:47 pm Permalink
Specifically the one on the left. Can't seem to find any info about it
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From: La Mirada Atoll
| Posted: 2012-12-03 10:40 pm Permalink
TP, I'm usually not a fan of the "coffee mug" type tiki mugs. I'd be proud to display those two if they were mine. The finish/glaze is particularly nice. What's the story on your find-how did you find em?
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bigbadtikidaddy
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Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 429 | Posted: 2012-12-04 12:45 am Permalink
don't know much, but i've had that mug on the left for quite a few years and always wondered what the story was, as mine doesnt have the paul marshall sticker underneath. on a visit to dan & wendy's I noticed they had a similar one, so I asked about it. wendy told me kohalacharms saw it & said it might be from the pago pago in tuscon, according to a cocktail menu he had. i sent him a pic of mine, but he seem to think it wasn't the same mug....soon after I saw one on ebay with the sticker intact, like yours.
Before that I didn't even know it was a pmp mug.....i assume they sold them in drug/department stores & places like that back in the day, like the other more common styles of pmp mugs.
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bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2012-12-04 10:25 pm Permalink
Rare mugs, never seen them before. They both seem to be based on wood carvings from the Philippines. Does anybody have a Paul Marshall catalog here?
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TikiPug
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From: Den of Sin / Pug's Pair-A-Dice
| Posted: 2012-12-05 08:01 am Permalink
I always like when Big Bro says rare mugs. And does anybody have a PMP catalog?
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Sweet Daddy Tiki
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From: Edmonton
| Posted: 2012-12-05 2:22 pm Permalink
I was thinking the one on the left looked like this wooden made-in-Philippines mug:
On the wooden mug, the handle is the body, with arms(?) at the bottom and legs and feet at the top:
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bigbadtikidaddy
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Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 429 | Posted: 2012-12-06 2:47 pm Permalink
I am curious who that figure represents? that's why I picked up the mug to begin with...i've seen those wooden mugs a thousand times & was never tempted to pick one up, but the ceramic version had a bit more charm, so i grabbed it. since then, i've listed it on ebay a few times without any nibbles & contemplated donating it back to a thrift store, but every time I start to, something makes me pump the brakes & decide to keep it.
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